From pv journal in Spain

Spain’s largest vitality provider, Iberdrola, and Spanish PV challenge developer Prosolia have acquired a environmental allow from the Portuguese authorities to construct a 1.2 GW photo voltaic plant within the municipality of Santiago de Cacém, about 200 kilometers south of Lisbon.

Iberdrola mentioned that the challenge is the biggest PV plant in Europe. It says that “be an instance of strict respect for all environmental requirements.” The challenge is anticipated to begin business operation in 2025.

“The land that can host the challenge has already been acquired,” Iberdrola mentioned.

The challenge was initially introduced in September 2021. On the time, Prosolia mentioned the plant would have a capability of 1.14 GW and would use Tesla batteries. Nevertheless, as introduced yesterday by Iberdrola, nothing was talked about in regards to the storage unit.

Final December, the European Funding Financial institution (EIB) mentioned it could finance 188 MW of PV crops being developed by Iberdrola in Portugal. The corporate additionally introduced plans to speculate €3 billion ($3.26 billion) in photo voltaic, wind and storage initiatives in Portugal by the tip of the 12 months.

Prosolia and Iberdrola collectively plan to speculate €850 million within the development of 4 photo voltaic parks with a mixed capability of 360 MW in Spain, in addition to a 1.2 GW photo voltaic facility in Portugal, by 2025.

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